17th century
This sheet forms part of a seventeenth-century Dutch album, in its original binding, which contains 41 small, full-page drawings on parchment by more than 27 different artists.
11 x 15.2 cm (4 5/16 x 6 in.)
Possibly Pieter Spiering, Delft and The Hague. Private collection, United Kingdom, sold [private sale, via Sotheby's, London]; to Maida and George Abrams, Boston, 1987 (Lugt 3306, without their mark), gift; to Harvard Art Museums, 1999
Brown ink and gray-brown wash, framing lines (trimmed) in brown ink, on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown wash over black chalk on cream antique laid paper, with a center line in black chalk
16th-17th centuryDutchBlack chalk and gray wash, with a framing line in brown ink, on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchGouache, watercolor over graphite on cream antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBlack and white chalk, with a framing line in brown ink, on off-white antique laid paper, prepared with brown wash, laid down on a mount
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and colored wash on antique laid paper
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, brown wash, black chalk, white opaque watercolor, and scratchwork on off-white antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchBrown ink, brown wash and gray wash mixed with white opaque watercolor over graphite on off-white antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutchBlack and white chalk on blue antique laid paper, discolored to brown
17th centuryDutchBrown ink and gray wash over traces of black chalk on off-white antique laid paper, framing line in dark brown ink
17th centuryDutchBlack chalk and graphite (?) on parchment, autograph framing line in graphite (?)
17th centuryDutchRed chalk on off-white antique laid paper, framing line in red chalk and framing line in brown ink
17th centuryDutch